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Hector Berlioz: A Romantic TragedyA thumbnail sketch like the present is, of course, the last place in the world to recount even an infinitesimal part of a life so vivid and crowded with bitter conflict and tragic experience as that of Hector Berlioz; and...

The Esperantist, Vol. 2, No. 12THE ESPERANTO BLEND is a combination of the finest Whiskies from the Highlands of Scotland, and is of special interest to Esperantists, as the label has been designed to serve as a "propagandilo." A liberal CASH DISCOUNT will be...

The Esperantist, Vol. 2, No. 11THE ESPERANTO BLEND is a combination of the finest Whiskies from the Highlands of Scotland, and is of special interest to Esperantists, as the label has been designed to serve as a "propagandilo." A liberal CASH DISCOUNT will be...

The Esperantist, Vol. 2, No. 10THE ESPERANTO BLEND is a combination of the finest Whiskies from the Highlands of Scotland, and is of special interest to Esperantists, as the label has been designed to serve as a "propagandilo." A liberal CASH DISCOUNT will be...

Il romanzo della guerra nell'anno 1914 Se questo libro di passione contiene qualche parola un po' eccessiva non di odio; ce n' anche troppo dell'odio! la colpa un po' della parola, amante timida e ardente della verit, ed anche un po' dei signori Editori,...

Millbank Penitentiary: An Experiment in ReformationMillbank Prison stood for nearly a century upon the banks of the Thames between Westminster and Vauxhall, a well-known gloomy pile by the river side, with its dull exterior, black portals, and curious towers. This once famous prison no...

Yule-Tide YarnsThe Alert, a handsome schooner of some 200 tons burden, was in April 1793 cruising along the southern shore of France. She had been captured a fortnight before by his Majesty's frigate Tartar, a week after the declaration of war between France and...

The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and WrongTHIS lecture, which I now bring before the notice of a larger public, was delivered by me before the Vienna Law Society on January 23, 1889. It then bore the title: Of the Natural Sanction for...

Kittyleen - Flaxie Frizzle StoriesTo Mothers: This storythe fifth of the Flaxie Frizzle Seriesdeals less with the little child whose name it bears than with Flaxie Frizzle herself, Kittyleen being from first to last an interloper. It aims to show the gradual improvement of...

George Frideric HandelHandels long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and goings that any attempt to force even a small part of...

Bandelier National Monument, New MexicoThis publication is one of a series of handbooks describing the historical and archeological areas in the National Park System administered by the National Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior. It is printed by the Government...

The Journals of Major-Gen. C. G. Gordon, C.B., at Kartoum.Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Csar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. Good friends, sweet...

Fuochi di bivacco Adesso scrivo sotto una pioggia, che batte ai vetri della finestra e finisce di sterminare sulle viti gli ultimi grappoli. Questo autunno lacrimoso: una tristezza colata con le nebbie dai monti oscurando le valli, i canti della vendemmia non hanno potuto...

John Silence, Physician ExtraordinaryAnd what is it makes you think I could be of use in this particular case? asked Dr. John Silence, looking across somewhat sceptically at the Swedish lady in the chair facing him. Well, then, she laughed, your wonderful clairvoyant gift...

The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 09These verses compose the earliest of our author's political poems, and are among the first which he wrote, of any length or consequence. The first edition is now before me, by the...

Leila at Home - a continuation of Leila in EnglandIT was the intention of the writer of the following pages to have bid a last farewell to Leila, but some of her young readers have said No; and she feels too grateful for the...

Ginevra, o, L'Orfana della Nunziata Non si appartiene a me di giudicare questo libro. Il supremo giudice de' libri, il tempo. Un libro pu essere tre cose: una cosa nulla, una cosa rea, una cosa buona. Il tempo risponde con un immediato silenzio alla...

Von der Hexe die eine Heilige war Am 16. Februar 1906, gerade fnf Jahre vor dem Tode der Dichterin, ist ein Schauspiel Die Hexe von Agnes Gnther ber eine Liebhaberbhne gegangen. Darin war ein Ausschnitt aus einem ursprnglich episch aufgefaten Stoff dramatisch gestaltet. Aber...

The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, May 1883We have seen that Mstislaf the Brave defied the tyranny of Andre Bogoliubski, in his attempt to intimidate Novgorod the Great.[A] When Vsevolod, surnamed Big Nest, by reason of his large family, would force the city to his will,...

The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious RitesThis work does not treat of the origin of mans religious faculty, or of the origin of the sentiment of religion; nor does it enter the domain of theological discussion. It simply attempts to show the...